GroundedAI secures $2 million to help modernize tunnel building
BC startup sees room to facilitate Canada’s major infrastructure projects push.
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Which LLMs are secretly Canadian?
Plus: OMERS Ventures head departs for Kensington.
InsideDesk closes $12.6 million USD to grow its dental payment management platform
Toronto startup’s backers include Pender, Round13, and Graphite.
Siemens Canada to expand Saskatoon R&D hub by 10,000 square feet
Expansion will advance ‘industrial AI’ in company’s semiconductor design.
Alberta and Québec partner on AI in government
Provinces sign a memorandum of understanding to share technical assets, develop joint projects.
1Password launches AI token spend management
Amid soaring costs, the Toronto firm aims to help clients get a handle on their AI usage.
AI pioneer Richard Sutton founds new research lab
Oak Lab hopes to one day create an AI agent that can run on just 20 watts of power.
Anthropic commits $10 million to Canadian institutions for AI research
AI giant offering Claude credits to major institutions like U of T, Amii, Mila.
Solving.AI wants AI to teach you how to use work software (properly)
Montréal startup raises $1.1 million to help fix corporate software adoption rates.
What Canadian tech startups should know about AI in the workplace
Amid a “Wild West” for AI regulation, lawyers from Littler encourage companies to mind existing laws.
Dubai’s Ahoy to hire 200 in Montréal as it relocates R&D hub
Move comes months after AI firm struck “nine-figure” deal to buy Montréal’s Wrk.
Alberta to invest $50 million into Amii over five years
Investment will be broken down across five provincial ministries.
Assent makes first acquisition deal with purchase of German firm IPoint
Ottawa centaur says deal will help expand its supply-chain compliance platform.
Q&A: Minister Evan Solomon on why Ottawa wants Canadians to adopt AI
Federal AI minister on why AI is a foundational technology and why Canada needs sovereign digital alternatives.
Does Anthropic want to eat your business?
Plus: How AI chatbots are being tricked into smear marketing.